Bivouacs

Balthazar Daninos, Mickaël Chouquet and Léo Laroche from the Ateliers du Spectacle Company are in residency at the Atelier Arts Sciences in 2013. After a trial period in 2012, the company organises three Bivouacs in 2013. They take place in three different research centres in the Grenoble area. In each of these units, they engage in exploring how ideas are born. They have set up a research protocol, which they call CCMDLT : Comment ça marche dans la tête ? (What goes on inside the brain ?) This theatre group intends to draw on exploring the researchers’ brain : deep dive into imagination !

Three mathematical Bivouacs will be set up in 2012/2013 at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience in La Tronche, at the GIPSA-Lab in Saint Martin d’Hères and at CEA Grenoble.

Artists

Associated researchers

Dominique David (CEA-Leti), Amal Chabli (CEA-Leti), Antoine Depaulis (GIN), Jean-Luc Schwartz (Gipsa-lab), Hélène Loevenbruck (Gipsa-lab), Julien Bastin (GIN), Marie-Jo Moutin (GIN), Michel Dojat (GIN) are the main researchers who are associated to the entire project. Several other scientists are invited to participate in a one-day working session at each of the venues where the company sets up their research tent.

The Ateliers du Spectacle Company is hosted by the Ateliers Arts Sciences in 2013 in a residency on the CCMDLT project, a research protocol on how ideas emerge in order to understand "What goes on inside researchers’ brain". They will set up their bivouac for a week at the Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN) in La Tronche, the GIPSA-Lab in Saint Martin d’Hères and at the CEA Grenoble so as to carry out their poetic protocol experiment on researchers’ imagination. A group of researchers will join in the whole protocol process.
The residency will lead to a production presented in the framework of the Rencontres-i Arts Sciences Biennale 2013.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Theatre Studies from University Paris 3 and Paris 8. He works on movement and dance at the Théâtre du Mouvement with Patricia Kuypers in Contact-Improvisation, regularly practices Taï-chi-chuan and follows the Feldenkraïs and Grinberg methods. He works on his voice with Jean-Philippe Guibert and Chantal Santon from 2000 to 2003. In 2004, he trains with Mérédith Monk, which has a large impact on his vocal practice. In 2007, he learns the Tomatis method at the Audio-Vocal Centre.

He has worked with the following companies :

Sans Titre (2002), he co-writes and directs on stage Sinon, je dors bien, musical production based on autobiographical texts ; Allégro Théâtre ; Allégro théâtre (2000-03), actor for Angelus Novus (Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, June 2002), andt Image trouée, directed by Francisco Moura ; Bro=Blo (2003), actor in De quoi avez-vous peur ? production in Halle, Germany ; Choeur en Scène (2003-08), directed by Emmanuèle Dubost, dwith whom he works first as a singer and actor then as a stage director for Plutôt les Yeux du Firmament ; The Ateliers du Spectacle (2003-08), actor for Prolixe, Promenade de tête Perdue, (production in France and in Portugal, then on tour in Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal) and Hiéronimo by G. Aperghis (2008), directed by Jean-Pierre Larroche. The t de n+1 (2008-09) ; The Arcal (2007-08), singer and actor in the opera Les Scarifices by Thierry Pécou, directed by Christian Gangneron.

She studies to be an actress at the Ateliers du Sapajou, then at the Ecole du Théâtre Nationale in Strasbourg (1999-2002). She plays under the direction of Arnaud Meunier, Yann-Joël Collin, Elsa Hourcade and Benjamin Dupas, Hubert Colas, Sylvain Maurice, Stéphane Braunschweig (at the TNS permanent company), Kheiredine Lardjam, Jehanne Carillon, Oriza Hirata, Amir Reza Koohestani, Jean-Pierre Baro, Stéphanie Loïk, Michaël Thalheimer... In 2007, she receives the Discovery of the Year in Theatre Award by the Critics Union for her role in Dress Those Who Are Naked by Pirandello and in Three Sisters by Tchekhov directed by Stéphane Braunschweig. She has also co-directed the Le Bain & L’Apprentissage from Jean-Luc Lagarce with Daniela Labbe Cabrera. She is part of the group called Passages with whom she produces cabarets for villages in Auvergne every year. She has played in several short movies : En suspension by Fanny Dal Magro, Smoking et Trompette by Raphaël Potier and Le livre des rêves by Emmanuel Rouglan as well as in the film L’Absence by Cyril de Gaspéris..

Assistant Director to Jean-Pierre Larroche with the Ateliers du Spectacles Company since 2001 for A Distances, Prolixe and Promenade de Tête Perdue
to Richard Dubelski with the Corps à Sons Company for Les Dix Paroles after M. A. Ouaknin
to Thierry Roisin with the Beaux Quartiers Company for Dialogues Têtus after G. Léopardi